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It’s been a while since I dragged Frank Rich over from the NYTimes to rh.com, but his column published yesterday is one that has to be spread around. Rich keeps calling what’s going on out there in politics for what it really is—in my book. He stubbornly keeps connecting the…
Read More »In today’s Globe Rob Gavin (formerly a Lowell SUN staffer) gives us an account of the many projects the UMass system is undertaking across its five campuses. He calls them “another sign of its growing impact on regional economies.” The projects bring federal and private dollars into the Commonwealth and importantly it…
Read More »As the Massachusetts House and Senate conferees continue to negotiate the elements of the casino/gambling bill, stories continue to crop-up about casinos elsewhere. One of the most controversial is the attempt to license a casino only a half-mile from the national military park that commemorates the Civil War battle…
Read More »The Associated Press reported on President Obama’s comments about making progress on the national economic front, including the new financial regulations law. He also called on Congress to send him a bill that is intended to assist small businesses through tax credits. Looming over these steps forward, however, was the…
Read More »Last Friday, economist Paul Krugman wrote in the NYTimes about the comeback of “voodoo” economics, which the first President Bush tried to warn Americans about in 1980, when he was trying to stop Ronald Reagan from becoming the Republican Party’s nominee for president. And the rest is history, as they…
Read More »In a StateHouse News Bureau story reported in today’s Eagle Tribune, there are three legislator-perspectives on the current status of the Casino bill. From Senator Stan Rosenburg (D-Amherst), chief gambling bill negotiator for the Senate – still hopeful: Asked if he felt there might be an unbreakable impasse, Rosenberg said,…
Read More »One of the biggest questions in studying modern (post 1600) global history is why it was Europe and not China or India that became the dominant world power. From a purely statistical standpoint, the best money was on China up until even as late as 1800; it simply had greater…
Read More »Timothy Egan checks in with his latest NYTimes column, this one about heat waves, extreme weather, the reality of global warming, and the desperate need for smarter federal policies on energy. Read his views here, and consider subscribing to the NYT if you appreciate the writing. My household gets the…
Read More »Robert Scheer in the online Huffington Post says the GOP will pay politically for their double-standard on demanding pay-as-you-go for jobless benefits but not for their standard proposed upper tier tax cuts. Read his rant here, which I picked up from realclearpolitics.com
Read More »E-mail from the Massachusetts Democratic Party Executive Director: I want to send you some great news: Our chair, John Walsh, is home and feeling fine. As you may have heard, he had what his doctors are calling a ‘mild” heart attack. He was released from South Shore Hospital today and…
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